Rosa Klöser, winner of the Unbound Gravel 200 professional girls’s race, will even race on the street within the WorldTour subsequent season, having signed a two-year take care of Canyon-SRAM.
The German, 28, is comparatively new to biking and gained Gravel racing’s headline occasion on debut whereas nonetheless being a full-time PhD scholar again in June after a breathless dash within the 320km race.
Klöser will proceed to race gravel as a privateer going ahead however hopes to progress as a street racer on her residence group Canyon-SRAM, with an eye fixed on making use of her skills within the Classics and Grand Excursions.
“Whereas my most important focus for subsequent season might be on gravel as a privateer, I’m satisfied that the group construction and street calendar the place I’m racing with extremely proficient teammates and being guided by extremely skilled assist workers, will enable me to make some large steps and unlock new potential in my nonetheless pretty new biking profession,” mentioned Klöser on Canyon-SRAM’s web site.
“With my background in gravel racing, I imagine that I is usually a fairly versatile rider. I want to attempt myself out in traditional races and be up there within the mountain levels of Grand Excursions to assist the group’s GC ambition. I’m excited to see the place my limits are.”
Klöser picked up biking competitively in 2022 in Denmark whereas learning for her PhD in inexperienced transport at Copenhagen Enterprise College. She discovered rapid success when she jumped totally into the gravel racing world, netting a number of podiums on the UCI Gravel World Sequence in 2023 and 2024 forward of her triumph at Unbound in Kansas.
As she joins Canyon-SRAM, the group of defending Tour de France Femmes champion Kasia Niewiadoma, Klöser has made one other monumental leap in her profession as a motorcycle racer.
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“Profitable Unbound 200 in my debut 12 months whereas nonetheless being a full-time PhD scholar who has solely dipped her toes into biking round three years in the past was actually the most important second in my biking profession thus far,” she mentioned.
“I’ve been trying as much as Canyon//SRAM Racing as one of many main Girls’s World Tour groups since I began biking round three years in the past. From the primary dialog with the group, I might inform that I’d really feel at residence right here.”
Having lower her tooth racing the native scene in Copenhagen, Klöser has some, albeit restricted, expertise racing on the street, additionally taking over the Tour de Berlin Feminin in 2023 and the German nationwide championships street race in 2024 – the place she was ninth behind largely WorldTour riders.
Klöser is the fifth new Canyon-SRAM signing introduced for 2025 alongside Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, Maria Martins, Wilma Aintila and Anastasiya Kolesava, who was equally introduced on Monday morning having moved up from the event group.
“It’s a giant step for me to affix Canyon//SRAM Racing for the upcoming 12 months,” mentioned Kolesava.
“I am an all-rounder who can do spring classics and assist the group within the stage races. I can place my teammates within the peloton and have good race intuition. My targets for the upcoming season are rising as a rider and supportive teammate.”
